Setting up the Doom Track
At the beginning of the game,
place the top card of the green
adventure deck face-down
next to the board adjacent to
the Tamalir market stack.
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Welcome to Advanced Runebound
After playing RUNEBOUND a few times, you might like to add some twists
to your favorite fantasy adventure board game. ADVANCED RUNEBOUND
provides these twists—without adding any components—and lets you turn
RUNEBOUND into a whole new experience.
Remember, adventure cards are discarded not only when Challeenges are
defeated, but at other times as well: after encounters are resolved, for
example, or when events are drawn that cannot be played, or when players
use a card they have been holding.
ADVANCED RUNEBOUND includes new options to add danger and new challenges to your RUNEBOUND games.
Adding a Doom Counter
What’s New
ADVANCED RUNEBOUND includes several new rules that change the way
you play the game:
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The Doom Track: As the world grows darker, the Heroes are running
out of time. The doom track is an automatic “game timer” that counts
down to the end of the game.
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The Endgame: When the Doom Track reaches the end, the players
have to face the deadliest Challenges in the game—whether they’re
ready or not!
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Travel Hazards: Now even the spaces without adventures are dangerous!
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First Turn Movement Dice: It’s no longer best to go first.
What’s Different
ADVANCED RUNEBOUND also includes several rules variants that make the
game more challenging for the advanced player by modifying wounds,
exhaustion, knockouts, and other basic rules.
The Doom Track
In ADVANCED RUNEBOUND, the row of market stacks along the edge of the
board serves a second purpose: it is also the doom track. Over the course
of the game, adventure cards are placed next to the board along this track,
representing how the world grows more dangerous over time. When a certain number of adventure cards have been placed on the doom track, a
doom counter is placed on the track (as detailed below). When eight
doom counters have been placed on the track, the normal game ends, and
the Endgame begins.
Setting up the Doom Track
At the beginning of the game, take the top card from the green adventure
deck. Without looking at or revealing it, place it face-down next to the
board adjacent to the Tamalir market stack.
Adding Cards to the Doom Track
During play, whenever an adventure card is discarded (if a Challenge is
defeated, for example) it is not removed from the game. Instead, it is
placed face-down on the doom track in the next available space. That is,
since there is already a card in the Tamalir space, the first discarded
adventure card will go “above” that space in the Riverwatch space, the
second in the Dawnsmoor space, and so on.
When a certain number of cards have been placed on the doom track, a
doom counter is placed on the doom track. The number of cards is determined by the number of players, as detailed below:
No. of Players
2
3
4-6
No. of Cards to Trigger a Doom Counter
4
6
8
To add a doom counter, follow these directions:
1. Take the last adventure card to be placed on the doom track (that is,
the fourth card in a two-player game, the sixth card in a three-player
game, or the eighth card in a 4-6 player game) and place it in the first
space on the doom track (next to Tamalir).
2. Remove all other adventure cards from the doom track and place them
in their respective discard piles (green adventure in a green pile, yellow adventure in a yellow pile, etc.).
3. Place a wound counter (now known as a “doom counter”) on the town
heraldry of the first available market stack on the doom track. When
you place the first doom counter of the game, therefore, you will place
it on the town heraldry for Tamalir. Your second doom counter will go
on Riverwatch, your third on Dawnsmoor, and so on.
When a doom counter is placed on the last space on the doom track, (that
is, Frostgate) the normal game ends and the Endgame begins.
(For a diagram illustrating adding a doom counter, see the next page.)
The Endgame
Margath and the Dragon Lords have risen, and are setting out to destroy all
those who would oppose them—starting with the Heroes! The time for
adventures is over. Now it comes down to this, the final confrontation
between good and evil.
To prepare for the Endgame, take the red adventure deck and do the following:
1. Remove all Event and Encounter cards from the red deck (note that there
are none in the basic set).
2. If there are any red Challenges on the undefeated adventure track,
remove them from the track and put them back into the red deck.
(Players still keep any red Challenge cards they already have.)
3. Shuffle the red deck.
4. Determine the level of each player’s Hero. (A Hero’s level is equal to its
total bonuses from experience counters.)
The player with the highest level Hero is
first to undertake the Endgame confrontation (detailed below), followed by the
player with second-highest level Hero,
and so on until a winner is established. If
two or more players are tied for level the
player with the most gold goes first. (If
even this is tied, determine order randomly.)
Adding a Doom Counter
1. Move the last
card to the first
space.
Endgame Confrontation
2. Disard all
other cards.
When it is your turn to undertake the
Endgame confrontation, you must draw a
random Challenge card from the red deck.
Reveal it, then resolve it as if it were a
normal Challenge with one major exception: you cannot escape this Challenge.
Note that during your turn in the
Endgame, there is no Refresh or
Movement Step. Any abilities that happen
“before” or “after” moving cannot be
used, because you are not moving.
What happens next is determined by
whether your defeat or fail the Challenge:
3. Place
a doom
counter
on the
first
available
space.
If you defeat the Challenge, and the
Challenge is “High Lord Margath,”
you win the game.
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If you defeat the Challenge, and the
Challenge is not “High Lord
Margath,” take the Challenge card as
normal. If you now have three red
Challenge cards in your inventory, you win the game. If not, then draw
and resolve a new Challenge card from the red deck. You must continue
resolving new Challenges until you either win or are eliminated from the
Endgame. (Remember, there is no Refresh or Movement Step, and therefore no resting or using abilities during those steps to heal.)
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If you fail the Challenge (either by being knocked out or otherwise
failing it), you are eliminated from the Endgame, and the Challenge is
shuffled back into the red deck. (In this instance, you do not lose your
gold or experience counters for being knocked out.)
When you are eliminated from the Endgame, play passes to the player
with the next-highest level Hero. In this fashion, play passes from the
most-powerful player to the least-powerful player until either someone
wins the game or all players have been eliminated from the Endgame.
If all players are eliminated from the Endgame, the player who has the
most red Challenge cards in his inventory wins the game. If two or more
players are tied, the player with highest-level Hero wins. If even this is
tied, the player with the most gold wins.
Travel Hazards
These rules allow Heroes to come across “wandering monsters” and other
random dangers during their movement—especially if they journey
through the dangerous mountains and forests.
Rolling for Hazards
If you end your movement in a non-town space without an adventure
counter, undefeated adventure counter, or another Hero, you must roll 2
movement dice to check for travel hazards.
Timing Note: Rolling for hazards is
always the last thing you do after moving. If you have any cards to play or
abilities to use “after moving,” be sure
to do so before rolling for hazards.
If you encounter a travel hazard, you
must roll the 2 movement dice again.
This time, count the number of symbols
showing. (It doesn’t matter which symbols are showing; all that matters is the
number of symbols.) This is your hazard number.
Now look at the doom track. Starting at
the bottom of the track (the Tamalir
space), count upwards a number of
spaces equal to your hazard number,
and note the color of the adventure card
in that position. If your hazard number
is 4, for example, you will look at the
fourth space of the doom track, which is the Vynelvale space.
Example: John rolls the 2 movement dice again. They show 6 symbols, so
John looks at the sixth card on the doom track (next to the Nerekhal
space). He notes that it is a yellow adventure card.
If your hazard number is greater than the number cards on the doom track,
you must “loop around” in your counting, starting over at the first card.
For example, if there are three cards on the track, and your hazard number
is 5, you must look at the card in the second space.
Resolve Hazard
After determining the color of your hazard, draw an adventure card of that
color. Reveal this card to the other players, and resolve it as you would a
normal adventure card, with the following exceptions:
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One Card Only: If you draw an Encounter or Event, resolve it normally, then end your turn. You do not draw another card
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No Before Combat: You do not resolve any “Before Combat” text the
adventure might have, and you may not use the “Before Combat” abilities of your Hero, Allies, Items, or other cards.
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No Escape: The Escape Phase is skipped during each round of combat.
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No Reward: If you defeat the adventure, you do not receive the
reward listed on the card.
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Experience: You do, however, receive the usual experience points for
defeating the adventure if it is a Challenge card. Instead of taking an
adventure counter from the board, however, take it from the central
counter pile, making change as necessary. (If there are not enough
adventure counters in the pile for you take what you to need, you do
not get any experience points for defeating the Challenge.)
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Failure: If the adventure is a Challenge and you fail it, the card is still
discarded (i.e., placed on the doom track). It is not placed on the undefeated adventure track.
If the dice show one or more terrain symbols that match the terrain of the
space you are in, you do not encounter a travel hazard.
If the dice do not show any terrain symbols that match the terrain of the
space you are in, you immediately encounter a travel hazard. You must
now determine the hazard color (detailed below).
Strategy Tip: Note that you are far
more likely to encounter a travel hazard
in a mountain, forest, or swamp space
than you are in a plains, road, or river
space.
Determine Hazard Color
This is an example of the first doom counter being added in
a three-player game. Because it’s the first doom counter of
the game, it is placed on the first space (Tamalir). Becauase
there are three players, the counter is being placed when the
sixth card is added to the doom track.
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Example: John ends his movement in a
forest space and rolls 2 movement dice.
The dice show no forest symbols, so he
encounters a travel hazard. If the dice
had shown even a single forest symbol,
he would not encounter a travel hazard.
First Turn Movement Dice
The number of movement dice you can roll on your very first turn of the
game is determined by the number of players and your place in the turn
order (first player, second player, etc.).
To see how many movement dice you roll on your very first turn, consult
the chart below.
No. of Players
2
3
4+
Player 1 Player 2 Player 3 Player 4+
4
5
5
5
3
4
5
5
2
3
4
5
As you can see, in a four-player game, the first player rolls 2 movement
dice, the second player rolls 3, the third player rolls 4, and the the fifth
and sixth players roll all 5.
Wounds and Knockouts
If your Hero takes a number of wounds greater than its Life score, your
Hero is immediately knocked out. You must do the following:
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Discard all your wound, exhaustion, and unspent adventure counters to
the counter pile.
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Discard all of your gold to the bank.
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Discard your highest-cost Ally or Item face-down to the bottom of the
market deck. (If two or more are equally expensive, you can choose
which one to discard.)
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Move your Hero counter to the nearest town space. (If two towns are
equally close, you can choose which one to visit.)
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Just as if you had escaped the adventure, place the Challenge card on
the undefeated adventure track and place the undefeated adventure
counter on the board.
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You may, if you wish, choose a new Hero at random from the Heroes
not currently being played. If you do this, you may keep all your current experience counters.
Remember, these rules only apply to your very first turn of the game.
Other Rules
These additional changes modify or replace the basic RUNEBOUND rules to
make the game more challenging for the advanced player. Unless otherwise noted below, all other rules remain the same.
Taking Wounds
If you take a number of wounds greater than your Hero's Life score, then
your Hero is knocked out (as detailed later in these rules).
Resolving Events
In ADVANCED RUNEBOUND, if you draw an Event card, it is only discarded
without effect if its number is lower than the Event card in play. If it is
equal to or higher than the Event card in play, the Event card in play is
discarded. The new Event card takes effect immediately and remains in
effect until replaced.
Likewise, if your Ally or enemy takes a number of wounds greater than
its Life score, then it is killed.
Remember, if an Event card is discarded, it is placed on the doom track.
Heroes, Allies, and enemies are not affected by taking wounds equal to
their Life scores.
During the Market Phase in ADVANCED RUNEBOUND, you may only buy
healing as follows:
Taking Exhaustion
In ADVANCED RUNEBOUND, you may not choose to take exhaustion that
will result in you taking a wound. This applies to both Heroes and Allies.
You may, however, still be required by the game to take exhaustion that
results in wounds.
Activating Cards
During a turn, you may activate only one card per Movement Step and
one card per Market Step. During the Adventure Step, you may activate
only one card during “Before Combat,” and one card per round of combat.
Movement Dice and Exhaustion
The number of movement dice you roll is determined not only by what
type of space your Hero is in at the beginning of your turn, but also by
how much exhaustion your Hero has. If you Hero is not in a town and has
no exhaustion, you may roll 5 movement dice instead of 4.
Discarding and Reshuffling Adventures
Remember that in ADVANCED RUNEBOUND, discarded adventure cards are
not removed from the game, but are placed on the doom track (as detailed
earlier in these rules). When these cards are removed from the doom track,
they are placed into discard piles.
Each adventure deck has its own discard pile. That is, there is a green discard pile for the green adventure cards, a yellow discard pile for the yellow adventure cards, a blue discard pile for the blue adventure cards, and
a red discard pile for the red adventure cards.
If an adventure deck runs out, take all Challenge cards in the corresponding discard pile and shuffle them to form a new adventure deck. (All
Event and Encounter cards from that discard pile are removed from the
game.) If there are no more green adventure cards, for example, shuffle all
the discarded green Challenges to form the new green adventure deck.
Buying Healing
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For 1 gold, you can discard one wound from your Hero or one Ally. In
other words, you must spend 1 gold for each wound you heal.
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For 1 gold, you can discard all exhaustion from your Hero or one Ally.
Spending Experience Points
In ADVANCED RUNEBOUND, you receive two experience counters for the
price of one. That is, in a four-player game, you receive two experience
counters for 5 experience points.
You may not purchase a single experience counter for half the experience
points, however. You must still pay the indicated number of experience
points to purchase experience counters, and may not purchase single experience counters.
No. of Players
2
3-4
5
6
Exp. Points for 2 Exp. Counters
6
5
4
3
Other Experience Rules
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You may not purchase two experience counters of the same type at the
same time. You may not, for example, purchase two Mind +1 counters,
or two Body +1 counters. But you may purchase a Mind +1 and a
Body +1 counter at the same time.
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When you purchase experience counters, you may immediately discard
all wounds and exhaustion from your Hero.
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Your Hero’s level is equal to the total number of bonuses from experience counters you have. (This is slightly more accurate than the number of experience counters you have, since many single counters represent +2, +3, or +4 bonuses.) You don’t have to keep track of your
Hero’s level during the game, but it is essential during the Endgame
detailed at the beginning of these rules.
Credits
Original Game Design: Martin Wallace and Darrell Hardy
Advanced Runebound Development: Christian T. Petersen, John
Goodenough, and Darrell Hardy
Graphic Design: Scott Nicely
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